C# - display information about custom objects in VS during debugging

I have a set of C# classes, extending an abstract class. There is an abstract method void Show() on the parent. The extending classes are part of a graph with cycles. The implementations of Show invoke many times Console.Write(). Between the console writes there are recursive and other 开发者_StackOverflow社区calls.

My problem - it is very hard to debug without an easy way to see the state of the graph. I've tried to make that method string Show(), but it is very hard to do properly with all the recursion and cycles. Can you suggest a better approach?

Thanks, Sam

Consider using DebuggerDisplay rather than ToString. See these excellent articles:

• Why override ToString()? Use DebuggerDisplayAttribute instead
• DebuggerDisplay attribute best practices

override your ToString() method, the tooltip window shown by the debugger uses this method to show any relevant data related to your object.